…knit happens!

Something beautiful to wear, soft as a kitten’s belly fur and ideally something I can use some of my every growing stash on.

Did I ever tell you about when I used to travel to “the London office” every Friday? Friday lunchtime could only mean one thing. Grab a sandwich to eat on the bus and head for John Lewis, Oxford Street.

Quite often there was nothing I needed but I just couldn’t leave empty handed could I? So I developed an expensive habit of buying an odd ball of Rowan’s Kidsilk Haze. It was just one ball – I was being good wasn’t I? It looked so pretty and inviting. All the sumptuous colours begging to be stroked and loved…

The upshot of this weekly expedition is that I accumulated 57.5 balls of KSH in my stash! I’m too afraid to work out how much I spent! Some has been give too me by stash-phobic friends (I love you generous stash-phobics!) but I was truly shocked when I catalogued my stash on Ravelry.

I have heard Kidslik Haze referred to as “Cracksilk Haze”. I guess I now know why….

It takes 14 balls of KSH and 10 different colours. I had single balls of every colour in stash – I just had to go buy the extra 4 “doubles”.

Here’s the different colours…

I started Saturday and I’ve just done one full pattern repeat of 182 rows. That’s not a mistype – 182 row pattern repeat! 😯

The good news is that it’s absolutely plain stocking stitch holding two strands of KSH together. No problems there – this stuff sticks to itself like clingfilm!

The fascinating part is which two colours are being held together? Nevermore than 5 rows the same, you are constantly changing one or both of the colours to give a beautiful subtle effect. I’m very impressed at Kaffe’s skill, blending the colours and using muted shades to tone down some very bright shades when knit together.

Want to see my progress?

The down side is what to do with the ends? There’s millions of them! OK, that’s an exaggeration but hundreds at least…

I started weaving them in but I thought it showed. I took this pic to show you but I don’t think you can see them!

So I decided just to knot the new yarn on and leave the ends dangling (the KSH will not slip!). They will then be secured and hidden by the double crochet edging. I plan to just lay them along the edge and crochet over them. If it doesn’t work I’ll have a month of sewing these ends in… 😯

Hi Brandie,
Sorry, as far as I can tell, this pattern isn’t available for free. It’s printed in “Rowan Greatest Hits” book as well as
“Rowan 42”. The Greatest Hits book may have more you want to knit in it?? Otherwise, ebay is great for back issues of Rowan mags.

I’m curious, now that it’s finished, if that worked okay by knotting them and then doing the crochet border to ‘hold’ them down?
Rowan 42 is out of print and I hate to order the other book it’s in (don’t like a single other pattern so it seems expensive to buy the book for one pattern 🙂
I may just give it a try by guessing how many to CO and then go wild and figure out my own colour scheme! eek. Cheers